Pharmacists have been told to check whether young children really need EpiPens, which are routinely doled out by the NHS and used by millions of allergy sufferers. Amid a 'critical' global shortage, the NHS has told chemists to ask parents how...

Doctors' use of Caesarean section to deliver babies has nearly doubled in 15 years to reach "alarming" proportions in some countries, a study says.

Children and young people up to 18 should have their weight and body mass index (BMI) recorded every year, says a report by child health experts. 

Patients claiming free prescriptions in England face checks before medicine is issued in an effort to stamp out fraud. Prescription fraud currently costs the NHS in England an estimated £256m a year. 

A trainee barber whose rash and persistent itching were dismissed as eczema for 17 months was actually suffering from blood cancer.

Hypertension medications are safe for women to take during their first trimester, a new study has revealed.

Two painkillers are to be reclassified as class C controlled substances amid concerns people are becoming addicted to them and misusing them. The drugs - pregabalin and gabapentin - are also used for epilepsy and anxiety. The move, announced...

A Daily Mail investigation has found that doctors are helping patients to choose the sex of their baby, by sending them abroad for a procedure that is outlawed in the UK.

Family doctors should extend the 10-minute consultation time for patients who are most in need to improve care and increase their job satisfaction, a review claims.

Blood from the umbilical cord could be used to repair cleft palates in babies, scientists claim.